McCorry, S. (2017) “This disgusting feast of filth”: meat eating, hospitality, and violence in Sarah Kane’s Blasted. ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 24 (4). pp. 753-766. ISSN 1076-0962
Abstract
Sarah Kane’s Blasted (1995) scandalised its early audiences with its staging of sexual violence, war crimes, and cannibalism. One reviewer famously described it as a ‘disgusting feast of filth’, an appraisal which unwittingly captures the centrality of questions of appetite to the play’s ethical project. In this essay, I argue that attention to the consumption of meat is crucial to a fuller understanding of the play’s well-documented interest in sexual violence and militarism. I trace how Kane brings meat into an economy of exchange, hospitality, and gift-giving which, while ostensibly driven by care, is nonetheless thoroughly structured by violence.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Oxford University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Animal Studies; Ecocriticism; Vegan Theory; Meat; Contemporary Theatre; Sarah Kane |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2017 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2024 16:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/isle/isx072 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124380 |